UNSEEN Arts Hub Nura Yoga
Event description
The UNSEEN Arts Hub, with the support of Western Sydney University, is proud to present Trauma Informed Yoga with Aunty Jacqui Jarrett from Nura Yoga.
Each of the three daily session will be followed by a collaborative weaving circle for women guided by Tegan Murdock of Ngumpie Weaving exploring resilience and solutions for change. Join us at 6pm on Saturday 26th November to celebrate all the women who attended the sessions and see the incredible collaborative weaving project they have created together. Special guest, Aunty Dixie Link Gordon, Founder of Breaking Silent Codes will be speaking at this event. Places are limited. Refreshments are provided, please contact us if you have any inclusion requirements via belinda@mutti.org.au or call 0414 787 788
Saturday 26 November 2022
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- 1:00pm - 2:30pm
- 3:30pm - 5:00pm
- 6:00pm - 8:00pm
"I have worked and shared space with my First Nations sisters in many areas of my life, both personally & professionally. My passion lies deep within the movements and causes which hold space for healing as a First Nations woman including Breaking the Silence Code. My Yoga session with the UNSEEN Project includes an inclusive collaborative weaving circle and invites women from a diverse range of social and cultural groups, including those with lived experience of housing insecurity and homelessness to join together in this safe space. Here we are able to discover not only our resilience, but our ability to provide solutions that allow us to independently and collectively rise from being victims to becoming survivors who can realign and find their strong guiding matriarchal spirit within family, community & beyond. I gain strength from my ancestors who have been the custodians of this land, now known as Australia, for over 40,000 years. In the language of the Dharawal people, my mother’s people Nura means country or place. My motto 'Yarrila Muya Bandu-Bandunyja' speaks my paternal grandmother’s Gumbaynggirr language and means to Illuminate breath in and out. " - Aunty Jacqui
WHERE?
UNSEEN Arts Hub, Centenary Square, Church Street Parramatta
WHY AN UNSEEN ARTS HUB?
Highly visible and innovative, the UNSEEN Arts Hub uses art’s unique power of arousing curiosity to generate a safe space within communities to raise public awareness of the complex and unexpected circumstances leading to women’s hidden homelessness. The UNSEEN Arts Hub challenges dehumanising attitudes and misconceptions that promote the negative stereotypes, fear and stigma so often associated with women who experience housing insecurity and homelessness in our communities These stereotypes often translate into not-in-my-back-yard approaches to social and affordable housing. Instead, the UNSEEN Arts Hub generates tolerance and understanding of the causes of women’s homelessness and the pathways needed to secure safe and adequate housing for women at risk. For homelessness to end, change must happen in the hearts and minds of all Australians before policy can reflect much-needed social change.
WHAT IS WOMEN'S HIDDEN HOMELESSNESS?
In Australia, over 50,000 women are experiencing homelessness, mainly caused by domestic violence and financial abuse. While some 400,000 women over 45 are estimated to be at risk of homelessness, fear and stigma causes many to avoid support services and remain in violent situations. Others stay in temporary or overcrowded accommodation, or sleep in their car or concealed places. Older women are the fastest-growing cohort experiencing homelessness, and 400,000 women over 45 are currently estimated to be at risk. Without the opportunity to learn from those with lived experience, the diversity and scale of women’s housing insecurity and homelessness will continue to be underestimated, making the future increasingly bleak for young women.The UNSEEN Arts Hub makes visible the narratives of these women through the power of art and face-to-face engagement with the public.
Thank you to the City of Parramatta, Bonnie Support Services, Western Sydney University and Museum of Understanding Through Tolerance and Inclusion, along with Primary Comms Group, for supporting the Parramatta activation of the UNSEEN Arts Hub. This activation would not be possible without the leadership of women from the UNSEEN Arts Hub who have lived experience of housing insecurity and homelessness. We also wish to thank Code Green, AutoSkin, Avery Dennison, American Shingles, AWS, Soroptimist, Share the Dignity and Khun Khao Foundation, as without them - we wouldn't have an arts hub.
